brine vs spice up

brine

verb
  • To prepare and flavor food (especially meat) for cooking by soaking in a salt solution. 

  • To preserve food in a salt solution. 

noun
  • The sea or ocean; the water of the sea. 

  • Salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling. 

spice up

verb
  • To enhance the flavor of something by adding spice to it. 

  • To make more exotic, fun or extravagant. 

How often have the words brine and spice up occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )